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Tawnie isn't getting an easy ride from Gabe Nagy. Her blog:
This has been my most challenging week to date. I have been challenged in my workouts and my nutrition. My workouts with Gabe Nagy of Grand Fitness have been great but he is definitely changing it up and pushing me more. I am really enjoying it and I feel all the work after we are done. He has me working more with the medicine ball and heavier weights so it is definitely a change I could feel. I work harder each session but it is very enjoyable and is never boring.
I have lost about ten pounds so far according to the scale I purchased. I have a long journey ahead but I am positive I will accomplish my goals. I want to see much more weight loss so we are adjusting my eating. I am changing all of the food in the house and working with Noah Providence of WildcatCrossfit. We discovered through my food tracking that I was not eating enough and what I was eating involved too many carbohydrates. I never realized how many carbohydrates are in certain fruits and vegetables until now. It has been a great learning experience. According to Noah “I will be reducing carbohydrate calories to engage fat metabolism and maintaining a dependable 1500 calorie a day regimen and implementing twice a week fasting.”
Noah’s plan that I am following is
1. Eliminate sugar and all flour
2. Increase good fat intake. I am defining “good” primarily as saturated fat. That is fat from animal sources and coconut oil.
3. Do all frying and sautéing with butter or coconut oil. (No seed oils like canola, olive oil is ok in moderation ie salad dressing)
4. Eliminate gluten grains like wheat and barley. Limit other grains like corn and rice, which are nutritionally poor.
5. Get midday sun for a few minutes on as much of your body as you can
6. Twice a week eat no breakfast or lunch but have a good dinner. This will become easy as you increase your fat intake. (Remember, dietary fat is not stored as fat, excess calories, usually in the form of carbohydrates are converted to triglycerides and stored as fat).
Foods to increase:
Meat
chicken
turkey
tuna
salmon
flounder
sardines
beef
pork
lamb
bacon (without nitrates)
ham (without nitrates)
eggs (scrambled, fried, hard boiled, deviled, omelets
Cheese and Dairy (should be full fat, aged)
cheddar
cream cheese
mozzarella
blue
heavy cream, up to 3 ounces a day.
Veggies
Most, except root vegetables like potatoes. When in doubt, use FitDay to check nutritional content.
Limit fruit as fruit is mostly sugar.
This is essentially a modified version of the Atkins Diet. The Atkin’s website has been a great resource for me and I am using it to cook from and consult for any purchasing decisions. As I have said I am a carbohydrate addict so this has been a huge change. I know I need to keep this up though as it is the best way for me to engage my body in weight loss. With the combination of exercise and nutrition I should be stimulating my body to increase my weight loss.
